Primal Scream – Come Ahead (2024) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Primal Scream – Come Ahead (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:22:52 minutes | 991 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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Come Ahead is Primal Scream’s 12th full length record. 11 new songs that find Bobby Gillespie preparing to release some of the most personal songwriting of the band’s career.

The songwriting process for Come Ahead began in 2019. At which point Bobby Gillespie had no idea if he would make another Primal Scream album again. For the first time, the lyrics came before the music. The story came first. Bobby wrote alone, using an acoustic guitar. Ideas flowed fast, in long bursts of inspiration. This process, in tandem with encouragement from producer David Holmes, provided a new way in. Working with Holmes and Primal Scream guitarist Andrew Innes, the Come Ahead sessions were completed between Belfast, London and Los Angeles.

“I’m very excited about this album in a way that you would be making your first record. If there was an overall theme to Come Ahead it might be one of conflict, whether inner or outer. The title is a Glaswegian term. If someone threatens to fight you, you say, ‘come ahead!’ It’s redolent of the indomitable spirit of the Glaswegian, and the album itself shares that aggressive attitude and confidence. They have a word for this up there, gallus. Come Ahead’s quite a cheeky title too.”Bobby Gillespie has shapeshifted through several passionate musical personas in the years since his band Primal Scream’s 1991 masterpiece, Screamadelica. On Come Ahead, their first album of new material in eight years, the intensely talented Scotsman remains torn between his activist impulses to truth tell and his obvious skill and primal need to fashion dance grooves modeled after ’70s funk and disco. In the Nile Rodgers- adjacent opener, “Ready to Go Home,” Gillespie wishes for inner peace between the grooves: “I’m so tired of the game/ I’m so ready.” The smooth and simmering “Love Insurrection” balances instinctual funkiness with tormenting doubts in a seductive confection of danceable magnificence, with the Perry Vale House Gospel Choir adding backing vocals. “The Centre Cannot Hold” is paced by strummed acoustic guitars while Gillespie ponders perception and reality: “No one knows another/ We can see only what they show.”

Recorded in Los Angeles and Belfast by engineer Michael Harris, the sound mix is rich and layered. One unexpected change is that the bright, blurpy keyboards that have populated past Primal Scream records have largely been replaced by a small string orchestra which adds weight and sweep to tracks like the self-explanatory, “Love Ain’t Enough.” Gillespie’s gentle but pointed rant, “False Flags,” dedicated to his reformer father, Robert Gillespie Sr.—a crusader for social justice who is pictured on the album’s cover—indicts war (“For a cause that means nothing, just a trick on our souls”) and the resulting PTSD (“Now I drink through the days, so that when night-time comes/ I won’t think of the things that I saw and I done”). Wavering between indignation and hope, these wide-ranging ruminations are fresh proof of Bobby Gillespie’s particular musical expertise. – Robert Baird

Tracklist:

1-1. Primal Scream – Ready To Go Home (04:41)
1-2. Primal Scream – Love Insurrection (06:19)
1-3. Primal Scream – Heal Yourself (05:32)
1-4. Primal Scream – Innocent Money (06:30)
1-5. Primal Scream – Melancholy Man (05:15)
1-6. Primal Scream – Love Ain’t Enough (04:44)
1-7. Primal Scream – Circus of Life (05:52)
1-8. Primal Scream – False Flags (08:11)
1-9. Primal Scream – Deep Dark Waters (04:49)
1-10. Primal Scream – The Centre Cannot Hold (03:42)
1-11. Primal Scream – Settlers Blues (09:04)
2-1. Primal Scream – Ready To Go Home (Edit) (03:27)
2-2. Primal Scream – Love Insurrection (Edit) (03:32)
2-3. Primal Scream – Heal Yourself (Edit) (04:02)
2-4. Primal Scream – Innocent Money (Edit) (03:33)
2-5. Primal Scream – Deep Dark Waters (Edit) (03:32)

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